Lightspeed Offices Phase 3
- Year
- 2020
- Type
- Commercial
- Status
- Built
- Location
- Montreal, Canada
Barely five years after moving to their new Montreal HQ, Lightspeed POS decides to invest the attic of the famous Gare Viger. Currently exceeding 450 employees, at their Montreal office only, the tech company had to maximize occupancy by transforming the 10,000 square feet located on the 5th and 6th of the building, currently used as storage spaces and informal swing space, into various training, meeting and working areas. The rehabilitation of the attic faced many challenges which undeniably guided each of our design and spatial planning decisions: optimization of a narrow and cramped linear space; integration of an ambient lighting strategy to respond to the low penetration of natural light; construction of a long corridor crossing the attic connecting to the second exit and thus meeting regulatory constraints related to the evacuation of the future boardroom on the 6th floor; development of an exterior roof insulation strategy (classified as heritage) in order to keep its wooden frame exposed from the inside of the 5th.
Barely five years after moving to their new Montreal HQ, Lightspeed POS decides to invest the attic of the famous Gare Viger. Currently exceeding 450 employees, at their Montreal office only, the tech company had to maximize occupancy by transforming the 10,000 square feet located on the 5th and 6th of the building, currently used as storage spaces and informal swing space, into various training, meeting and working areas. The rehabilitation of the attic faced many challenges which undeniably guided each of our design and spatial planning decisions: optimization of a narrow and cramped linear space; integration of an ambient lighting strategy to respond to the low penetration of natural light; construction of a long corridor crossing the attic connecting to the second exit and thus meeting regulatory constraints related to the evacuation of the future boardroom on the 6th floor; development of an exterior roof insulation strategy (classified as heritage) in order to keep its wooden frame exposed from the inside of the 5th.